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When United States Presidents do just about anything, the world takes notice. But one thing they do to get the whole world’s attention? Meet with one of their counterparts around the world to discuss issues of strategic importance. Such meetings between leaders—often termed “presidential summits”—have historically reset policy between entire countries, normalized long-chilly relations, and in the case of the Cold War, kept the world’s two great established superpowers from using nuclear weapons on each other.

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25 idioms that were common in the '60s

The 1990s hit film trilogy "Austin Powers" may have reintroduced many to 1960s lingo, phrases, and idioms. In the films, a 1960s-era spy, played by comedian Mike Myers, time travels to the 1990s, where he anachronistically uses phrases like "groovy, baby" and "shagadelic." But did people actually talk like that?

By Nacho Vasquez

As Told To Nila Gott

Nacho Vasquez was part Yaqui Indian and was born in a boxcar along the New Mexico SP rails (his father was an employee). The following is an excerpt from a book about Nachos survival in life.

Nacho was a member of the 517th Parachute Regimental Combat Team.

Operation Dragoon

Venus Ramey was born Sept. 26, 1924 in Ashland, Kentucky. Ramey passed away on June 17 in Agoura Hills, California, at the age of 92.

President Zachary Taylor

From Hostetters 1892 Almanac This Month in History

July 1, 1867

RECIPES

Compiled by Women’s Society of Christian Service

Methodist Church

Grandview, Indiana

1955

Barbecue Burgers

Legacy of Rae Turner

Grandview, Indiana

1 lb hamburger

1\4 cup barbecue sauce

2 tsp Worcestershire sauce

½ cup catsup

1 small onion, chopped fine

salt and pepper to taste

From the Hostetter’s Illustrated Almanac for August, 1892

August 6, 1866. Atlantic Cable laid

“Springs Valley Gazette”
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Grade 5A-B
The children in this room are making an Indian wall panel. Each child plans a stencil of an Indian, wigwam, canoe or pottery for the panel of unbleached muslin. The pictures are colored with wax crayon and will be pressed with a hot iron.

The 5A class has been studying the life of Robert Fulton and the “Story of Ships”. The pupils have made a collection of pictures of ships.

I am your Flag. I have been kicked, trampled, burned, and shot full of holes. I have fought battles, but I prefer the untroubled air of a world at peace.

I am your Flag. I represent the freedom of humanity, and I shall fly high, thundering in silence for the whole world to hear. My gentle rustling in the breeze sounds out the warning to all who would bury me forever that below stands a population dedicated to liberty.

Author Unknown

Nothing evokes such strong emotion as seeing the flag, wither a ceremony honoring a great event or draped over a coffin as a sign of mourning for a hero or loved one.